- Creator
- Tayloe, Edward T. (Edward Thornton), 1803-1876
- Call number
- MssCol 3580
- Physical description
- .25 linear feet (2 volumes)
- Preferred Citation
- Edward Thornton Tayloe journals, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Journals kept by Edward Thornton Tayloe, 1819-1834 and 1850-1858, recording his expenses and income during various periods of his life. Included are records from Tayloe's time as a student at Harvard, as Secretary of the Legation in Mexico under Joel R. Poinsett, as bearer of treaties from Mexico to the United States in 1828, as Secretary of the Legation in Columbia in 1828, and during travel throughout the eastern United States. Also included are accounts of Tayloe's plantation in King George County, Virginia ("Powhatan"), recording taxes, slave prices, wharfage, household expenses, grain accounts, stable expenses, subscriptions to magazines and newspapers, books, entertainment, bonds and notes, and costs of education for his children at the Virginia Military Institute and elsewhere
Key terms
Names
- Tayloe, Edward T. (Edward Thornton), 1803-1876
- Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851
- Harvard University
- Virginia Military Institute
Subjects
- Accounts -- 19th century
- Clerks -- 19th century
- Cost and standard of living -- 19th century
- Dry-goods -- Prices -- 19th century
- Plantations -- Virginia -- King George County -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Virginia
- Treaties -- Transportation -- 19th century
Places
- Colombia -- Description and travel -- 19th century
- East (U.S.) -- Description and travel -- 19th century
- Mexico -- Description and travel -- 19th century
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328
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